Could Hunter Gatherers Speak?

Scientists have further evidence that an ancient family of languages spread across most of the Australian continent over the last 6000 years, rapidly replacing pre-existing languages.

Did hunter gatherers speak a language?

Some agrarian societies didn't develop languages with labiodentals, and some hunter-gatherer people today do have labiodentals in their languages.

Did cavemen have language?

But our modern language still has some remnants of the grunting cavemen who came before us—words that linguists say might have been conserved for 15,000 years, the Washington Post reports. ... But this ancestral language was spoken and heard. People sitting around campfires used it to talk to each other.”